[Python-Dev] Is core dump always a bug? Advice requested (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed May 12 22:47:14 EDT 2004


Michel> The way to know if it's well formed is to verify it using
Michel> something like a control flow analysis similar to the way the
Michel> Java ASM bytecode generation API does it.  

This is more-or-less what the Python byte code compiler already does to determine the high water mark for the stack used by a chunk of code it's compiling. Look for c_stacklevel, c_maxstacklevel and the com_push() and com_pop() functions in Python/compile.c.

Skip



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list